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GOB SQUAD
Nationality: British
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Gob Squad is a collective of artists that has been working with performance, media and new technology. always entertaining and often emotional and provocative. Gob Squad's work looks at contemporary identity and the need for fantasy in making sense of everyday life. Often situating their projects in urban environments such as offices, houses, shops and hotels, the group also makes work for radio and the internet as well as galleries and Theatres.
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Are You With Us? Before Your Very Eyes Close Enough to Kiss Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good) King Kong Club Revolution Now! Room Service (Help Me Make It Through the Night) SAFE Saving the World Super Night Shot We Are Gob Squad And So Are You Western Society What Are You Looking At?Are You With Us?
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Are you With Us? Is an improvised performance where Gob Squad ask each other all the questions they are afraid to ask in private, in public. It's part group therapy, part performance nightmare. By turns brutally funny and painfully honest, it's a high stakes game on the verge of a breakdown. Stuck in an endless photo-shoot-cum-therapy-session, the performers change their look from flight attendants to terrorists and more, searching for a group identity where everyone has found their place. Are you With Us? is a performance for anyone who has buried what they really want to say to their colleagues, family or team-mates. Anything can go wrong. Everything is at stake. So, are you with us?
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1st Produced:
Jerwood Dancehouse, Ipswich 01 Nov 2014
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Spill festival
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Top of PageBefore Your Very Eyes
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created over the course of the past two years with 8-14 year olds from around New York City. From behind the safety of one-way mirrors, the audience witness seven lives lived in fast forwardfrom angst-ridden teens to hunched geriatrics. As we adults try to stop the process of aging and preserve youth as long as we can, the children peer into the future and nostalgically back at their recent past, as they prepare to leave childhood behind forever. A must-see experience from this internationally acclaimed theater collective.
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The Belgian version of Before Your Very Eyes was produced by CAMPO (Belgium) and premiered in 2012.
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Top of PageClose Enough to Kiss
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I'm 25. I'm a football maniac. I'm a credit to my parents. I'm a busy airport. I'm a liar. This is a place where everday things become magical objects, where a good entrance and the right music are everything. Embracing the window display culture, moments from everyday life are driven to their future extremes.
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Cambridge: Cambridge Junction 09 Nov 1998
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Top of PageGob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good)
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inspired by Andy Warhol's 1965 film Kitchen in which the actors, who included edie Sedwick, sometimes performed a script and were sometimes simply themselves.
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Lyn Gardner, Guardian
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Soho, London 2008
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Top of PageKing Kong Club
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Top of PageRevolution Now!
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the Gob Squad demand a Revolution. Now. the first steps have been taken: the theatre has been stormed and is now the revolutionaries HQ: access to props, weapons, explosives and special effects secured; the box office has been occupied. all without bloodshed. So far. . .equipped with cameras, live links, big screens, wireless transmitters and long, long cables we'll be broadcasting the revolution out into the world. This revolution will be televised. Live. With the help of the audience as well as passers-by revolutionary moments are re-enacted in an attempt to write ourselves into history. Succeed or fail, the cameras keep rolling. We might lose the plot, we might have to rethink and recast, we might hopelessly disagree as to our ultimate goals. In the search for clarity we are faced with the same questions. Whose side are we on? What do we want and how far are we prepared to go? No stopping us now as Gob Squad dust off revolutions past from the archives of history and place them back in the present, right in the middle of our contemporary society.
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Performed And Devised by Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Laura Tonke, Bastian Trost And Simon Will
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ICA, London, UK >>> 24 Jun 2010
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LIFT 2010
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Top of PageRoom Service (Help Me Make It Through the Night)
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a man in a hotel room is staging an orgy, happily playing all the roles himself. the people in the three neighbouring rooms take a break from their activities to listen, expressing curiosity, revulsion or plain old lust.
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Top of PageSAFE
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SAFE is a new work by award-winning Nottingham based experimental theatre company Gob Squad. A six strong English/German cast will perform SAFE which uses airports and air travel as a metaphor for trust, risk, pleasure and excitement. A highly visual design incorporating video and projection will transform the state into an airport, clouds, and an altitude of 14,000 feet.
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Top of PageSaving the World
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Top of PageSuper Night Shot
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Precisely one hour before you arrive, Super Night Shot begins. In a military-style brief, Gob Squad declares a "War on anonymity" and takes to New York City streets armed with video cameras, embarking on a set of comic and surreal adventures that celebrate unexpected encounters with strangers. You give them a rousing hero's welcome as they return to the theater, and the footage of the fantastical mission is mixed live into a four-channel widescreen film.
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Berlin -
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60 min Piece
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Top of PageWe Are Gob Squad And So Are You
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shared pursuit of fact, fiction and the nature of identity
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performance lecture
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Top of PageWestern Society
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A random internet encounter with a videoclip of a family karaoke party was the catalyst for this performance. Gob Squad, dripping in bling, want to bring this little moment of lived reality back to life and they want to get the image just right. As the performers ask questions, search for answers and spill their stories - reconstructing this tiny piece of history over and over again - a few lucky audience members may win the chance to take part in the shiny golden image. Suitable for 18+. Running time: 1hr 30mins. Gob Squad is a seven headed monster, an arts collective with seven bosses, based in Berlin & Nottingham. Their new show Western Society is a portrait of civilisation in the 21st century, a frame through which we can peep into the living room of an unknown family and recognize ourselves.
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Top of PageWhat Are You Looking At?
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Various revellers in a two-way mirrored perspex cube, which they cannot see out of but which the audience can see into.
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ICA, London, UK >>> 23 Jun 2001
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